KOHAT: A 17-year-old girl was strangled to death allegedly by her father and brother in Sorgul area here in the name of honour on Monday, police said.

A Kohat police spokesman said in a statement that some relatives of the victim reported that body of the deceased was lying in the house.

The Jarma police arrived at the scene and found that she was strangled to death. The body was shifted to women and children hospital where the doctors confirmed that her death occurred due to choking by a rope around her neck.

The victim’s father and brother managed to escape after the incident. Initial reports said the girl had alleged relationship with a boy due to which she was murdered.

The police were carrying out raids to arrest the accused, but till filing of this report no arrests had been made.

The police registered a case on the complaint of the grandfather of the deceased against the accused.

ARRESTED: The security forces and police arrested two illegally residing Afghans and 22 other criminals during a joint search operation in Ublan camp and cantonment area on Monday.

They also recovered huge quantity of unlicensed weapons, including two small machine guns, one rifle, one shotgun, nine chargers and five pistols.

Acting on the intelligence-based information the forces cordoned off the Ublan camp and carried out house to house search. Two refugees who had no valid travel documents were booked under the immigration act and sent to Kohat prison.

Similarly, 10 locals were held for not providing data to the police station concerned before hiring their houses.

MAN KILLED ON ROAD: A man was killed while his son was seriously injured when an over-speeding car struck their motorcycle on the Indus Highway near district jail on Monday.

The driver of the car fled away from the scene. The police registered case against him and started investigations. The injured was admitted to hospital.

PROTEST CONTINUES: Ayaz Khan, an elder, who is leading the protests by the residents of Junglekhel area for expulsion of Afghan refugees from four camps, has threatened to stop movement of refugees from camps through Junglekhel and block all roads leading to their camps after Eid if the authorities did not stop them from selling houses constructed on their collective property to IDPs.

He also demanded that those houses and land which the Afghans had sold out to IDPs and their colleagues from other camps should be retrieved.

Meanwhile, chairman of Mutahidda Junglekhel Movement, Israr Shinwari, regretted that the Afghan refugees in the camps had started selling their land to the IDPs from Waziristan, Orakzai and other areas. He said it would create problems for the local owners after repatriation of the refugees. He said the illegal practice of selling houses to IDPs had started two years back when the government asked them to leave the country.

He recalled that he along with a 40-member delegation had met the officials of the Afghan Commissionerate and raised the issue. After that it was referred to the administrator in Kohat but then it was shelved.

Published in Dawn, June 13th, 2017